Fremantle Press, Better Reading and the Esplanade Rydges Hotel Fremantle are offering one lucky couple the chance to spend a deliciously bookish evening with author Liz Byrski. Brought to you as part of the Fremantle Press 40 Year Anniversary Celebrations and worth over $1,000, the prize includes three signed Liz Byrski books, and bed and breakfast in a Parkview room at the Esplanade Rydges Hotel Fremantle, as well as supper and inspiring conversation with one of Australia’s best-loved authors.
Congratulations to the five contenders for the 2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Catherine Gillard, Jay Martin, Jodie Tes, Tineke Van der Eecken and David Thomas Henry Wright are in the running for $12,000 in prize money and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.
Westbooks and the State Library of Western Australia are joining forces to host a new book club focusing on Western Australian authors and stories. We’re excited to announce that Walpole-based author Sarah Drummond will be in Perth for the first session to discuss her latest book, The Sound.
What do you do when you are a young man in the 1990s, fresh out of the army, with a geology degree, and an abiding lust for gold? You go looking for a gold rush!
Before It Breaks by Dave Warner was today shortlisted for a 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. Run by the Australian Crime Writers Association, the award is this country’s oldest and most prestigious prize honouring crime writing. This was the second year in a row that Fremantle Press books have made the shortlist.
Crime writer Alan Carter was in Europe last month for a three-nation tour of France, Switzerland and Spain. He was promoting his novel Prime Cut, which has just been released in French and Spanish as Morceaux de Choix and Corte Perfecto respectively.
In this podcast author Ron Elliott reads from his new crime novel Burn Patterns. Ron says: 'In a nutshell my book is a crime novel about Iris Foster, the Fire Lady. She’s a forensic psychologist and her specialty is arsonists. So when a school gymnasium is blown up she is the one everyone turns to.
What do you do when you start talking to yourself on the bus? If you’re Brigid Lowry, you change tack and write a book about what it means to be an ageing woman in the 21st century.
Amber-Jade Sanderson, MLC, will launch The Magnificent Life of Miss May Holmanby Lekkie Hopkins at the Constitutional Centre on Friday 27 May 2016. May Holman made history in 1925 when, at age thirty-one, she became Australia’s first Labor female parliamentarian, holding the seat of Forrest until her untimely death on the eve of the 1939 elections.
